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Leads team of data journalists as manager, reporter and editor. Coordinates investigative reportage across globalnews.ca. Works with online, broadcast and developer teams across the country in chasing and telling stories. Conceives and designs interactives and infographics to help tell stories along with text.Conceived, reported, wrote and edited investigative, in-depth features on a range of topics including income inequality, pipeline and oil-industry safety and regulation, gun control, the decline of Canada's long-form census and the treatment of mentally ill offenders. Wrote exclusive series on violence and deaths among mentally ill inmates in Canada's federal prisons.Coordinated online coverage of Ontario's 2014 provincial election.Acted as assignment editor during breaking news events including a fatal train explosion at Lac-Megantic, a python attack in New Brunswick, and Toronto's ongoing Mayor Rob Ford scandal.

National reporter based in Toronto, Ontario.Wrote for National, Foreign, Toronto, Focus, Editorials, Report on Business, Obituaries, Life and Special Projects sections.Reported from post-quake Haiti, covering ongoing rescue, recovery and rebuilding efforts; health crises in growing tent cities throughout the capital; the effect of a Port-au-Prince exodus on the impoverished countryside and broke international news on the saga of American Baptists accused of smuggling ersatz orphans across the border.Reported from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, covering pre-trial hearings and jury selection of Canadian detainee Omar Khadr.Produced five-part multimedia series on the most iconic photos behind 9/11.Covered Ontario election campaign from campaign buses and planes across Ontario. Broke news and wrote exclusive features on drug policy, socioeconomic research, nuclear energy and immigration.Covered city hall during Toronto’s 2010 mayoral race, breaking political news and writing analysis and longer-term features.Pitched and pursued local, national and international stories on topics including working poverty, the growing crisis of prescription-drug addictions and Canada’s struggle with Arctic sovereignty and development. Demonstrated ability to write exclusive pieces and file to a tight deadline. Blogged, Tweeted and filed to web for breaking news.

Feature on Xinjiang and ripple effects of Olympics attacks published in Maclean’s Magazine. Article on recession’s effects on Chinese migrant workers ran in San Francisco Chronicle. Worked with Stephanie Nolen as researcher/assistant in New Delhi.

Reported to British Columbia bureau and national news desk, covering local, regional and national news out of British Columbia. Pitched and pursued numerous articles, include a helicopter crash on location in small-town B.C., a massive rockslide on an Olympic highway and a feature on detoxification facilities across Canada. Devised, researched and wrote accompanying text for graphic features for several articles. Filed to web for breaking news.

Edited and planned all content of 43-issue, twice-weekly paper. Managed 30-person editorial and business staff, including hiring and disciplinary proceedings. Sat on board of directors for policy and financial decisions. Administrative duties included handling grievances and dealing with printer and publisher. Helped design new website, producing web-specific content and blogs.

Coverage included Fort McMurray forest fires, Edmonton housing crisis, sex trade. Pitched articles included outreach workers working with homeless in Edmonton’s river valley. Had several articles run in other CanWest newspapers across Canada. Filed to web for breaking news.

City reporter; covered local news including a disabled 14-year-old’s record-breaking swim across Lake Ontario, the death and repatriation of a U.N. soldier killed during the Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon and a feature on a Congolese refugee.